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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Lee Wolosky, former special envoy for Guantanamo under President Obama, about what it would take for President Biden to shut down the detention facility.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Midwest Modern Twitter account, Unclear and Present Danger podcast, Gemini Rights and more.

Hilary and John Krieger want to honor their father Neil, who made up the word "orbisculate." It means grapefruit juice squirting into your eye. They're petitioning to get it into the dictionary.

The Justice Department is tweaking its risk assessment tool in a way intended to make it easier for Black and Hispanic people in prison to become eligible for early release.

NPR's Life Kit offers tips on building and maintaining friendships from a psychologist who compiled a how-to guide for navigating them. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 10, 2022.)

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most revered — and controversial — women in South African history. In a new documentary her granddaughters examine the liberation icon in all her complexity.

Under the chaotic changes unleashed by Elon Musk, Twitter users in the U.S. are confronting problems that have long plagued the social network in other parts of the world.

The WikiLeaks founder and attorney Stella Moris began a relationship after Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. They have two sons together.

The dismissal of the lead judge investigating last year's massive blast in Beirut is raising fears of political interference to protect the country's leaders. The blast killed dozens of people.

Volunteers have painted more than 150,000 red hearts on a wall along the River Thames and people stop to write messages and names of lost loved ones inside the hearts.

The bill would amend the Electoral Count Act, which legal experts have called vague and confusing. The legislation is similar to a somewhat narrower bill from a bipartisan group of senators.

A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.